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Re: Random, Scattered Disturbed Thoughts

I had been to that site well over a month ago - which happens to be completely irrelevant to this situation because anyone who knows anything about it will realize that when you live 50 miles away from most transmitters it's not a matter of just pointing the antennae - you basically have to move it all over the place and experiment. From that distance trees, power lines, houses all impact the signal.

After having already done that my firm opinion is that the old rabbit ears are better than the new flat antenna the Best Buy guy recommended I get. I suppose I could buy 200 feet of coax and hang it in my kitchen or from the shower rod or something but I'm not going to do that.

The only thing that site's any good for - at least in my case - is so you can manually enter stations into the set in case you do find you can point the antennae in a certain direction and get one of them. Of course since most stations have the same default channel as they used for analogue, it doesn't provide a great bonanza of information even then.

Where you (we) got burnt was the number of stations that did return to the High VHF band instead of sticking with the UHF side. I've been watching HD/DT content since 2002 with not a problem with a nice outdoor UHF antenna only. After the switch our local CBS affiliate switched from (24-1) UHF to 10-1 VHF and all went kaput for me. It would have made it easier for folks if they just needed one type of antenna.

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Re: Random, Scattered Disturbed Thoughts

My grandmother died in the 60's, but her birthday is coming up, and that
always causes me to reminisce . The long walks we used to take to the store
in town, the quarters she gave me for meaningless jobs like pulling weeds
or washing the sidewalk . . .

Those gems were all good, but the one I remember most, the jewel in the
crown of grand motherly advice, occurred when I was only about 13 . We were
sitting in a park having just finished collecting some 40 soda bottles for
the deposit money on a beautiful spring day .

She told me that one day, I would find a wonderful woman and start my own
family . 'And always remember this one thing,' she said . 'Be sure you marry a
woman with small hands . '

'How come, Grandma?' I asked her .
She answered in her soft Irish voice .

'It makes your dick look bigger . '

. . . . . Kinda brings a tear to your eye, doesn't it?

If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence, try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around..